Does anyone dabble in Photoshop?

[sapphiratigress]

I was just curious. I play around with it myself and its quite fun! Just thought maybe someone else here might and could give me a few tips on trying to create graphics. And tell me why some of my features magically disappeared!

[thetop31]

I adjust photos before, but since my computer was spoiled last time by my baby, I reinstall my system, now I do not have the photoshop,but you can check from internet to get help. sometimes I do it! you can find your answer.

[southernhorizons]

I use Photoshop to improve my photos (adjust white balance, saturation, cropping, etc), but I've never tried any graphics with it. sorry I can't be of more help.
Can you elaborate more on what features disappeared? Maybe I could help you if I knew what you were missing.

[oldbuddy]

I can't afford Photoshop or the time to master it, so I am quite satisfied with Photoshop Elements at about 1/4 the cost. I found some awesome templates recently and almost cried when I read they required Photoshop CS2 or later, but after some testing I discovered they worked fine with my Photoshop Elements 8.

[jaymz462]

I've used it (in an amateur way) for years.  What features of yours disappeared?  Are they just windowns you accidentally closed?

[sapphiratigress]

I use Photoshop to improve my photos (adjust white balance, saturation, cropping, etc), but I've never tried any graphics with it. sorry I can't be of more help.
Can you elaborate more on what features disappeared? Maybe I could help you if I knew what you were missing.

Its more of the type of Filters that have disappeared. I'm sure there are other things as well. Oh! My ability to save for web or devices. I used to be able to do it, and cannot anymore. I have no idea why! The blur is radial blur. there were more but I can't place which ones they were.

What features of yours disappeared?  Are they just windowns you accidentally closed?

It wasn't a window that I closed. Its like my Photoshop reset itself and didn't have those features anymore. It bothers me because I found a new effect I'd like to try and I don't have my radial blur to do it with! And I know how to reopen windows in that tab on the top. I do it all the time. I'm also quite surprised to hear that Photoshop is mostly used for photo's. I thought more people would be into graphics. But I know its an amazing program to help clear up photos and create realistic effects.

[lvstephanie]

When I was doing research, I used photoshop a lot, mostly to annotate pictures and clean up the clarity on some. When I was first learning photo editing, there was a parody website that had people enter in mashed-up movie names: 2 or more movies having a common word (or part of a word) that then get blended together: "Night of the Living, Evil Dead" is mashed of "Night of the Living Dead" and "Evil Dead". And people could also create various things about the movie (tag-line, plot summary, memorable quote, etc.) including movie posters. So I had made a movie poster for "Remember the Titanic" (mashup of "Remember the Titans" and "Titanic"). It used a "Titanic" poster / cover which featured Leonardo DeCaprio in the sky (http://img.movie2k.to/thumbs/cover-375928-Titanic-movie2k-film.jpg) and the poster from "Remember the Titans" that showed Denzel Washington. Then I used photoshop to cut out Denzel's face, changed the color of that picture to the sky-blue / gray colors from the Titanic poster, and replaced Kate Winslet's picture with this photoshopped Denzel, making it look like Leonardo was attempting to kiss Denzel. Everyone on the site like the picture, and thought it looked very realistic (I wish I still had that creation; I probably do somewhere in my computer store hoard).

I really like the web-site PhotoshopContest.com. Each week they have a picture that others use to "chop" into their own creations, and then site members get to vote for their favorite picture. Some have been so good that I use the picture as a desktop background. It may be a good site to get ideas as to what is possible in Photoshop.

[natashaspy]

I actually use Paintshop Pro...as an amateur.  Have dabbled with Photoshop a few times though.  If you go to Google, do a search for tutorials...there are some awesome lessons out there for it, that teach how to do graphics, edit images, reduce red eye..anything you could imagine.  You can also do a Google search for free filters, tubes..possibilites are limitless!

[natashaspy]

I actually use Paintshop Pro...as an amateur.  Have dabbled with Photoshop a few times though.  If you go to Google, do a search for tutorials...there are some awesome lessons out there for it, that teach how to do graphics, edit images, reduce red eye..anything you could imagine.  You can also do a Google search for free filters, tubes..possibilites are limitless!

this is the type of thing you can do ...had a friend whose dad was a major John Wayne fan, he wanted a pic of the two of them together.  this one took me maybeeee 3 hours to do?

[sapphiratigress]

I really like the web-site PhotoshopContest.com. Each week they have a picture that others use to "chop" into their own creations, and then site members get to vote for their favorite picture. Some have been so good that I use the picture as a desktop background. It may be a good site to get ideas as to what is possible in Photoshop.

Hrmmm. Never heard of the place, but it sounds interesting so I think I'll attempt to go there. I would love to see what people do with Photoshop! I'm always open to new ideas and such.

this is the type of thing you can do ...had a friend whose dad was a major John Wayne fan, he wanted a pic of the two of them together.  this one took me maybeeee 3 hours to do?

That's pretty good! I've never really done photomanipulation which is what a lot of people I've seen do. I'm no good at cutting things from pictures. lol. I try so hard and it seems like no matter what too much of the picture gets cut out or too little!   it gets irritating sometimes.

I've also looked for free filters online..but I haven't found many. Especially not blurs. Mostly just ones for editing photos.

[natashaspy]

thanks! try not to cut exactly around what you want to cut out...leave a little space around it, then use your eraser tool and erase up to the edges of what you're cutting out makes it a lot easier!

[sapphiratigress]

Your welcome! I've tried that, but I'm just so terrible, I can't keep my hand steady. I don't really have a tablet to work with otherwise I'd be able to do a lot better with that. I just have my trackpad or a mouse which doesn't help much when you want to something very detailed. I do use a LOT of brushes and I find a lot of those free(or with creditation) on deviantart. Its a worthwhile place to have a free membership. I find a lot of beautiful photoshop works there, as well as some really good free stuff including textures and other things. They even have stuff for GIMP too. I would have gone and used that, but I decided to keep photoshop. lol. 

[joyroos18]

i dont but my sister does she is so good with it

[natashaspy]

i dont but my sister does she is so good with it

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[joyroos18]

lmbo yvw sis , didnt know you were even reading this one